European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 stars and stripes sunday april 29 2007 Gilda Sharpe Ettah right an Art teacher at English High school talks to her students in Bostons Jamaica Plain Section thursday oldest Public High school in us faces new hurdles by Jesse Harlan Alderman the associated press Boston one Wall at English High school holds old Blacka Edwhite photographs of Young White men in High starched collars another Wall is covered with a mural Spray painted in Graffiti Art English was founded in 1821 As the United states first Public High school and its distinguished Grade include financier up Morgan korean War maj Gen Matthew Ridgway nation of islam Leader Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Nimoy who played Spock on Star trek today its student body is one of the most diverse in the City i often find myself telling alumni this school was always a Home for irm Grants headmaster Jose Duarte said while striding through the Halls turning off students cell phones and yanking head phones from their ears in the past they were the sons of italians and Irish the Only thing that has changed is the tone of the skin we have always served the no affluent population of Boston but now the school is struggling educators say English troubles Are similar to those of other Urban Public schools with similarly Large numbers of poor youngsters and immigrants most schools that scored As poorly on standardized tests As English High school would have been closed by now Boston superintendent Michael Contompasis said i would have closed English if it want English he said instead the state has moved to save it the school will be placed under state supervision next year enrolment will be reduced from about 1200 to 800 Stu dents and longer school Days May be allowed it is not the schools first transformation English High began As a on room schoolhouse where students gathered around a fireplace Over the years the school admitted women and dropped military drills in All English has held classes in seven locations but Duarte said the school always has served a Simi Lar student shut out of Bostons elite schools in fact it was the first school in the us that did not require latin setting it apart from new England famous prep schools today English is about 48 percent hispanic 45 percent Black and 5 percent White almost 20 per cent Are recent immigrants in an English immersion program the school has failed year after year to meet Feder Al standards last year 74 percent of lot graders failed to show proficiency on the language arts Section of the state exam required for a diploma and 73 percent fell Short in math but Many students and teachers have Pride in their school simply because of its distinguished his tory schools now Banning ipod to Stop cheating by Rebecca Boone the associated press Meridian Idaho Banning baseball Caps during tests was obvious were writing the answers under the brim then schools started Banning cell phones realizing students could text message the answers to each other now schools across the coun try Are targeting digital Media players As a potential cheating de vice devices including ipod and Zunes can be hidden under cloth in with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt Collar to give them away school officials say it Doest take Long to get out of the Loop with teenagers said Mountain View High school Prin Cipal Aaron Maybon they come up with new and creative ways to cheat pretty fast Mountain View recently enacted a ban on digital Media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players a teacher overheard a couple of kids talking about it Maybon said some students use ipod compact Nick Dambrosia 17 holds up his ipod inside a classroom at Moun Tain View High school in Meridian Idaho earlier this month Ible voice recorders to record test answers in Advance and Mem play 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